LLDB Project Initiation

Apple begins internal development of LLDB in the fourth quarter of 2008, recognizing the need for a modern debugger tightly integrated with the LLVM toolchain and optimized for its platforms. Greg Clayton leads the charge, laying the foundational architecture.

Significance

Marked Apple's strategic investment in a completely new debugger, signaling a departure from reliance on GDB for future development, and setting the stage for its deep integration into Xcode.